Arab World

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

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    • A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
    • By: Avi Shlaim
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
    • By: David Rundell
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • David Rundell - one of America's foremost experts on Saudi Arabia - explains how the country has been stable for so long, why it is less so today, and what is most likely to happen in the future....

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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds....

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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In this monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism....

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    • By: Bassem Youssef
    • Narrated by: Bassem Youssef
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World" chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and more....

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    • An Insider's Guide to Living and Working with Arab Culture
    • By: Rana Nejem
    • Narrated by: Rana F. Nejem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book is a practical map that will help you understand the people and demystify the culture of the Arab world - the beliefs, values and social structures that determine how business is conducted and how things are done....

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    • By: P.C. Wren
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: Beau Geste, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • The world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage, and treachery....

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    • The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    • By: Amy Dockser Marcus
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period. But the bloody struggle for power actually started much earlier....

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    • True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World
    • By: Sophie Lewis, Leïla Slimani
    • Narrated by: Sarah Agha
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives....

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    • How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    • By: Jonathan Lyons
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Here is the story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West....

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    • Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
    • By: Tom Segev
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 28 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967....

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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
    • By: Ari Shavit
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 849 ratings
    • An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today....

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